out of intrest what would you charge ?

[Billy]

If it's 40 minutes that's a lot of chipping ! £150 including taking the chip away but no tidying up after. It's not worth any less you'd be hard pushed to rent a chipper for less than that.

[5 shires]

  Billy said:

If it's 40 minutes that's a lot of chipping ! £150 including taking the chip away but no tidying up after. It's not worth any less you'd be hard pushed to rent a chipper for less than that.

 

Yep you can you can chip allot of brash etc in 40 mins. 3 to 5cu/ mtrs easy

[IED Solutions]

I usually break it down into an hourly rate for operators, minimum of 1 hour, + a separate charge per cubic metre of chip for waste disposal because it's not free to dispose of the chip (waste handling licence, dragging chip around and record keeping is not free) + some for the chipper and fuel.

 

It gives the customer to chance to keep the chip then, so you don't have to drag it off site and move it far.

 

I usually find that when you get a call like that, they have just priced a skip to take it away and got a shock! you also have to realize that they won't have cut it up to suit your chipper and the way you work, the last one I did had cut a conifer up down to 2 inch stems, which means loads of picking up rather than bunging a 5" tree through the chipper in one go.

Edited January 12, 2015 by IED Solutions
forgot to add about the skip!

[Shane]

Anothe vote for 'I don't chip other peoples stuff.'

 

From experience the 'customer' thinks all the hard work has been done so its just a case of 'the last bit of the job'. I can earn a lot more per hour doing a full job for someone so why waste my time and equipment filling in for some knob who can't do a full job.

 

I would have to be desperate for work to even contemplate it.

[5 shires]

  Shane said:

Anothe vote for 'I don't chip other peoples stuff.'

 

From experience the 'customer' thinks all the hard work has been done so its just a case of 'the last bit of the job'. I can earn a lot more per hour doing a full job for someone so why waste my time and equipment filling in for some knob who can't do a full job.

 

I would have to be desperate for work to even contemplate it.

 

I have done many times for the right money and for mates who,s own chipper has brokern but never ever lend it or hire it out for others to use. A big big no no.

[bumble B]

  Billy said:

If it's 40 minutes that's a lot of chipping ! £150 including taking the chip away but no tidying up after. It's not worth any less you'd be hard pushed to rent a chipper for less than that.

 

By the power of grey skull you can fill a grab lorry with chip in 30mins.

[s.varty]

Depends weather the pile has been stacked by someone that understands how chippers work, are there any metal/stones etc in the pile?

[Ian C]

  s.varty said:

Depends weather the pile has been stacked by someone that understands how chippers work, are there any metal/stones etc in the pile?

 

One reason I never do it,you never know what's in it.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

£250. Travel, tip off chip, tidy up, half day lost for anything else. This £50 - 80 nonsense is just how to go out of business and undermine the value of the industry.

[Keithrturner]

Take photos too, it's surprising how piles of brash seem to grow between viewing the job and the lads getting there to do it!